paddi22
Well-Known Member
I've started to give lessons to my 13 year old niece on my horse. She has been riding for year in a riding school but has been very much taught just pull, kick and jump, but she's a nice little rider with a sense of feel.
I have a 16.2 sports horse who she is fine to ride on, he's very gentle and listens to her. I would like to teach her to ride properly, but I don't want to bore her to tears. I want to keep her in walk, trot and poles on him as I just got him and his canter is massive and unbalanced, and he's never been schooled to go on the right leg etc, so i don't want to be confusing the issue for him. his jump is too massive for her and he is too keen into fences, so for the foreseeable future its walk, trot and poles. She can tear around jumping and cantering on her normal lesson on a schoolpony, but on my lad, i'd like her to learn more finessed moves. The only issue with him is that he is only learning stuff like leg yield and bending himself, so he isn't really schoolmastery, and i don't want her confusing him too much is he's only getting his head around stuff himself
She genuinely wants to learn but I'd like to mix it up a bit with fun exercises so that she doesn't get stale with it.
So far i was thinking
lunge lessons mixing it up with no stirrups/reins
sitting trot exercise with sheet of paper under her to see if it slips
standing in the stirrups for as long as possible going from walk to trot and back again
direction exercises getting her to bend around poles (any suggestions of good ones)
raised poles
I'd love some exercises to help her get a feel of contact. She's only ever ridden in lessons where you just trot to the end of the ride, so i'd like to teach her feel in a way she will understand and enjoy.
any suggestions appreciated!
I have a 16.2 sports horse who she is fine to ride on, he's very gentle and listens to her. I would like to teach her to ride properly, but I don't want to bore her to tears. I want to keep her in walk, trot and poles on him as I just got him and his canter is massive and unbalanced, and he's never been schooled to go on the right leg etc, so i don't want to be confusing the issue for him. his jump is too massive for her and he is too keen into fences, so for the foreseeable future its walk, trot and poles. She can tear around jumping and cantering on her normal lesson on a schoolpony, but on my lad, i'd like her to learn more finessed moves. The only issue with him is that he is only learning stuff like leg yield and bending himself, so he isn't really schoolmastery, and i don't want her confusing him too much is he's only getting his head around stuff himself
She genuinely wants to learn but I'd like to mix it up a bit with fun exercises so that she doesn't get stale with it.
So far i was thinking
lunge lessons mixing it up with no stirrups/reins
sitting trot exercise with sheet of paper under her to see if it slips
standing in the stirrups for as long as possible going from walk to trot and back again
direction exercises getting her to bend around poles (any suggestions of good ones)
raised poles
I'd love some exercises to help her get a feel of contact. She's only ever ridden in lessons where you just trot to the end of the ride, so i'd like to teach her feel in a way she will understand and enjoy.
any suggestions appreciated!
